The Kabbalah of Cheesecake - Shavuos - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] good evening and welcome to all tonight's class is graciously dedicated in tribute to EDA Schottenstein with much appreciation and respect by her husband David Schottenstein thank you very much and God bless you you know they say that in Jewish restaurants in kosher restaurants the waiter goes around from table to table and asks this question at every table is anything all right and so this evening we will discuss the unique menu which according to Jewish tradition is eaten during the holiday of Shavuos which we will celebrate at the end of this week it is an ancient Jewish custom and tradition that on the yom tov on the holiday of shrewish we eat milks we don't only enjoy a flesh a Kamil a deli meal but before that we first eat maja Lake Olive dearie foods food of milk food made from milk and then we wait and following that we eat the regular holiday flesh ik meal deli meal what is the reason for this custom for this tradition which has taken root in jewish communities the world over and today if you go to a Jewish home on Jewess often they have the best and most delicious gourmet Deary dishes whether it's cheese cakes and cheese blintzes and different types of lasagnas and she's knishes and Barreca tsa's and so on and so forth each home according to their capabilities and tastehh what is the reason for this custom and tradition so there are many reasons that are given one famous one is the one presented in the mission of brooder and you have it in your curriculum right under the video source number one the mission of brooder quotes a god a LaHood a great sage who gave the following explanation when the Torah was given the day of Matt and Tyra after the terror was given the Jews did not have the patience of the energy to go bother and slaughter animals and prepare new deli foods on the other hand they couldn't eat the Flay shuck of food the meat food from previous days why because it was prepared before the Torah was given not according to the kosher dietary laws so they couldn't eat to the old meat knew they didn't want to prepare I guess they were very exhausted and overwhelmed and they didn't have the energy to now go and prepare foods from the beginning slaughter the animal and then go salt the meat and get rid of the blood and then cook it and so forth so the simplest thing was to eat mallika food to eat diri food on the day the Torah was given and that's why we perpetuate that tradition in our own lives every holiday of SH was rubbish LeMay Yosef Zevon in his book Hamoui then Baraka adds an extra insight he says it's not just they didn't want to go through the bother technically practically but furthermore the Talmud tells us that gomorrah says instructed Shabbos the Kula Alma by Shabbos nit natira according to all opinions the Torah was given on Shabbos schita to slaughter an animal is prohibited on Shabbos in fact it's one of the 39 prototypes of Labor forbidden on Shabbos is sweet as to slaughter an animal so they could not prepare new fellatio food meat on Shabbos they could also not use again the old meat as we said because those that was prepared not according to the laws of kashrut was before the torah was given the vessels were also trade for vessels non kosher vessels and therefore they ate they knew food they ate mallika food dairy food this is one of the famous reasons presented why we have this custom of eating milk eggs on shores and there are other reasons that are given but tonight I want to present present another possible explanation for this based on an insight articulated in the works of Jewish mysticism and spirituality Kabbalah and cussedness and for this we have to embark on a journey into the first meal and feast discussed in himesh and of course it's the lavish meal that of rama v new abraham our father presents to the three guests who later turn out to be angels who come visit him in the portion of Aiea in the book of Horatius if you look in your curriculum the torah presents to us the exact menu what of Rama gave his guests that day when they came to his tent on that hot summer day to eat and verse number 7 + exile well huh baccarat sorrow Abraham ran to the cattle but he has been baccara furtive he took a tender and fresh calf good calf by you 10 L&R by a mile a sucessor he gave it to the lad who hastened to prepare it next verse pisacas valleca femme avec olive he took cottage cheese and milk ivenna baccarat Shiraz and the calf that he had prepared by eating laughs Nahum and he placed peaceful before them before the angels will a medallion picasa eights he was standing over them under the tree vias halo and they ate essentially our me lunch lewis we first eat dairy foods Mallika foods cottage cheese milk followed by the flesh a camille by the meal of delhi mimics this first meal in commish the way of rama v new fed his guests now by the way i translated famous cottage cheese this is the translation in the living torah by Rabbi Ari Caplan there are other translations Gemma's cream or butter or a certain type of yogurt but in any case it's a dearie food which comes from milk whether it's cottage cheese cheese or cream or butter or yogurt so Avraham Avinu takes cottage cheese milk also the meat and he gives it to them and they eat it sounds like a cheeseburger with a cappuccino indeed around 400 years later God refuses to give the Torah to the Angels because according to God they ate non-kosher food when they were by Abraham and here we are exposed to a fascinating Madras in your curriculum Madras to hilum is Marcus a Madras on the book of the hilum section 8 let's read it ok Allah Masha Allah Kabul impoverished Nia when Moses went up to the mountain to receive the tablets a second time after the first tablets which were broken am room Alafia Sarris the angel said Reba I know you shallow the master of the universe valet s my lover Elijah Kosova la helical Akuma hey why are you repeating your mistake and giving the tour again to the Jewish people just yesterday they violated the Torah the Torah says don't create any other gods they went and worship the golden calf why repeat the mistake and give them the Torah Oh Marla Hama Kaddish Burroughs who God responds to the Angels call your myosin category in vanilla bean is wrong every day you find another way how to create antagonism between me and the Jewish people Loy optim cashier added tomato love Rama how impossible huh love should never ever he came over Sullivan ibaka voyage hey Lu is it not true that when you descended from heaven and you went to Abraham you ate meat together with milk he gave you cream or cheese and milk and meat and you ate it with Teaneck shall I am Kris Obama base robbery but amano-san asleep ass o basarov in Alaska who AM L I am l'm Danny Robby Lisa vassal debacle edema their child when he comes from the house of his teacher from the yeshiva from the school and his mother wants to give him food and his mother serves him bread and meat and cheese to eat and the child tells his mother today mommy my teacher taught me do not cook a calf in the milk of its mother do not eat meat together with milk why matzah why miner the Angels could not find a response and answer God challenges them you are telling me don't give the Torah to the Jewish people because yesterday they violated the Torah let me ask you my welcome when you came down to Abraham what did you do you ate meat and milk you ate fallacious emotions together he served you butter or cottage cheese and milk together with meat then you ate their children come home from school and refused to eat the two foods mixed together and they didn't have a response but Isis America - particle of moisture that moment Hashem God tells Moses save la hoy sad very mihaela write down these words actually let my notes over as long as they don't have a response as long as they don't have an answer and what the Midrash is referring to in this last moment is a fascinating concept if you look in the next source in your curriculum there is a verse in not in exodus key sisa the portion of kiss isa chapter 34 verses 26 and 27 government of zion lisa vassal debacle av my the Torah says don't cook a goat in the milk of its mother the source for the prohibition of cooking meat and milk valya Muramasa sham God tells Moses serve the horse at varam I'll write down these words klp at vermelha karate huh bris very strong because based on these words I made a covenant with you and the Jewish people what is the meaning write down these words which words so the mattress is saying what Hashem is saying is write down these above-mentioned words do not cook a goat in the milk of its mother because based on these words I made a covenant with you and the Jewish people what is the connection but according to this episode we understand the connection very well if there would have not been a prohibition not to eat meat with milk God would not be able to make a covenant with the Jewish people because the angels would have a great question and they would raise a great problem how are you giving the Torah to people who violated it and will probably violate it in the future but since there's a prohibition don't cook a goat in the milk of its mother and the angels violated that prohibition so based on these words I made the covenant with you and Israel so write it down write down these words they're critical in their merit you and the Jewish people receive the Torah this meddra is also quoted in daisuke namikawa at a service the commentate the commentary of toys Visan Commission Vieira and you have it here in your curriculum mallamma chassis limbo cervical of we see that I've ROM fed them meat and milk Sharat Socrates water cooled it in title Easter all I'm Rommel awesome to know a tallish am i when God wanted to give the Torah to Israel the angel said give your grace to leave your grace in heaven on my lehem God tells them coz of material ISA vassal debacle AV my butt Dadda term LaMotta a health and boss of a whole ocean america some of a hollow the torah prohibits the eating of meat and milk together but when you came down to earth you ate meat and milk me yada I do like others Burroughs who the angels immediately conceded to God here is of course the great question Hashem is accusing the angels of eating meat and milk violating the commandment in the Torah do not eat meat with milk but if we follow the story in Viera we see they did not eat meat followed by milk they drank milk and subsequently they ate meat how logically according to Torah there's no problem with that take a look in your curriculum shul Senora here at ASM and pay tests the code of Jewish law the section of your day is section 89 alcohol bus sir if you eat meat well given our herd of actually used to say shows don't eat cheese afterwards until you wait six hours between meat and milk between flashsticks and milk six we wait six hours so you had a good Shabbos cholent with meat come Saturday night you want to eat pizza you have to look if six hours passed go eat pizza and ice cream if six hours did not pass wait till six hours pass and then you can eat cheese or any food that comes from dairy food from Dairy Dairy Products civil Bay's the second section in that part of South America in that simin and that section eighty not oakarina what if you a cheese motor let hill ahead of bossom a yacht immediately after the cheese you can eat meat obove RCI in your affiliation government winning it but well you have to check your hands there should be no part of the cheese stock but sorry silicon AFP Velarde so you have to wipe your mouth and rinse your mouth to get rid of the cheese before you go eat meat but you don't have to wait you can immediately eat cheese yes the minigun Ashkenaz the custom and ashkenaz was to wait some people are half and others an hour of full hour which is the custom in many communities till today that after you eat a diri product you wait an hour until you eat meat this is also what the zou are it's based on the ZOA and a portion of mesh bottom as discussed in the commentators anshel Senora Senora daya section 89 sim and pay tests tops an hour and then you could eat meat products now come back to the original source with the taurah discusses the menu which i've rama v nu served his guests the angels via car Emma he took carriages vac olive and milk ivenna buckaroo sure awesome and the calf which he prepared and he gave it to them what did he give them first it doesn't say he gave them the meat and then he gave them cottage cheese and milk first he gave them cottage cheese or cream or yogurt or butter and he gave them milk and then he gave them the meat so first they ate Gary and then they a deli how logically there's no problem with that furthermore the Torah says he gave them cottage cheese he gave them milk he took cottage cheese and milk and the calf which he prepared the two words which he prepared a share ASSA seems superfluous obviously appeared the verse before that tells us that he gave it to the lad to prepare and obviously prepared it if you don't prepare it you can't serve it so what does Rashi explain Rashi on the verse explains that I've Rama V who didn't bring out all the food simultaneously as a product was ready as a dish was ready he immediately brought it out so whatever he had immediately he served and then he prepared more food and when that was ready he brought that out as well as in the real restaurant you sit down they give you what's ready some bread or some dips and then as they prepare your dish they bring it out of Rama vino had a great restaurant the first restaurant recorded in commercial in his own home in his own so that's why it says he took cottage cheese he took milk and the calf which he prepared in other words he went to prepare it in the meantime day we eating the cottage cheese in the milk how long does it take them a pair of calf so it has to be slaughtered it has to be prepared it has to be cooked or barbecue Dorset ate or however I rub a bit of a period how long does that take minimum an hour certainly a half an hour so not only not only did they not eat Flay shix meat right after they ate the milk as the Shulchan Aruch allows but they waited a half an hour an hour as desire says and the minigun ashkenaz the custom in many communities of ashkenaz ashkenazi coast so was a Mehadrin minima hydrant Glatt Kosher meal the most ultra Orthodox rabbis who had supervised that restaurant would say Glatt Kosher no problem this was a perfectly coaster legal meal according to all our logic standards even the most stringent standards of cash worth of eating kosher calms now history a few hundred years later and when the angels are telling God don't trust the Jews they transgressed yesterday they will transgress tomorrow Hashem says they're transgressing how about you you violated the Torah you ate goat you ate the goat in the milk of its mother that's not the case they first drank milk and then an hour later or whatever the time that passed they ate flesh six they ate meat indeed the - scanner mobile a auto service continues and brings a second of Madras that they did not transgress this prohibition because first was meat milk and then was the meat but the question is how does the Madras tehilim and the first opinion in the dice cane and even entertain the idea that the angels violated here the Easter the prohibition known as possible hull of meat and milk when it doesn't seem to be the case the question continues it seems strange why would the Angels violate the prohibition of eating meat together with milk and what is this some type of game the angels are telling God don't give the Torah to the earth to earth the Jewish people are not responsible they will not hold it dear they will transgress the mitzvot the commandments of the Torah what is God's response to them you don't talk you were worse you also violated the Torah is this a logical response is just just trying to keep them quiet is there some depth or logic to the response and why did have Rama vino Abraham the rabbi's say that I've Rama beam to observe the mitzvahs even before they were given why did he put them in this position why did he serve a non kosher meal to his guests and tonight I want to present to you a fascinating explanation presented by the alte RIBA rabbi schneider's almond of lee adi the famous author of tanya of Shannara the founder of Habad who professes his explanation by first presenting the deeper mystical spiritual and emotional reason for the halacha difference between meat and milk that once you eat meat you have to wait six hours till you drink milk or eat other dairy products but if you consume dairy products you need not wait six hours to eat deli products why the difference generally in the literature of Jewish law halakhah there are the two famous reasons the reason of the Rambam of Maimonides are banal moisture Ben diamond and the reason of the tour from his father and the reason from the reason of the tour who actually quotes from his father the rush Robin Wascher and you have it in your sources sips a Cohen you're a Deus Simon pay tests safe cotton base both the shark and the tars both present both reasons in your a day in tomorrow Simon pay tests but let's quote the sharks if Sequoia the shark rides like this is Elle Larson hot or this is what the tourist says why after eating meat they have to wait six hours till you can eat cheese so he says Lafitte shahe Buster might see Shulman or Moshe Tom abs menorah the residue of the fat of the meat lingers in the mouth for a long time in other words when you eat Flay six when you eat meat steak and so forth it is so fatty there's so much room on it's so rich and fatty that the taste continues to linger in one's mouth in one's palate in one's throat for a long time estimated six out proximately six hours so we wait six hours till we're certain that the taste is gone and now we can consume cheese the other way around it's not a problem waha Rambam nos and Tom Lee Shahir mission Buster Shabana Shan I am the Rambam Maimonides gave a reason because me too often get stuck between the teeth and therefore we wait six hours until we're sure the tea that meat is usually out of the teeth it's not stuck anymore now you can eat cheese we embrace both of these reasons which means practically speaking that even after six hours of the still meat stuck in your teeth you have to take it out before you eat cheese and conversely even if nothing got stuck if you sure nothing got stuck you have to wait six hours because of the lingering taste here is an interesting story on a side note there's some cipher the famous a logic a 30 rabbi moshe safer Moshe Schreiber the rabbi of pressure Berg today it's Bratislava he gave another explanation that some cypher fell that the reason you have to wait six hours after meet is because of digestion he felt that it takes the human system six hours to digest meat and based on this decipher came up with a novel ha logic idea namely since when a person sleeps his or her digestive system works much swifter so therefore if you eat meat and you go to sleep and you have a normal night's sleep even though you did not sleep for six hours when you wake up in the morning you can eat milk six why because it's based on digestion and when you sleep the digestion works much faster much more efficient so if we don't have to wait six hours if you had a normal night's sleep once there's a story there was some safer ate meat at night he went to sleep afterwards he slept for a few hours less than six hours he woke up in the morning and he prepared himself a coffee based on his ha logic innovation they don't have to wait six hours if you slept in the interim and the story is told he had the coffee on the table so you had the coffee and he had the hot water and he had milk and six hours had not passed and a child I guess woke up and came running into the kitchen or wherever there's some safer was sitting and hit the table and the coffee spilled out and there's some cypher said that this was a cinnamon mal Milo this was a sign from heaven that they did not agree with his allotted verdict and he went back to the mainstream illogic verdict until tomorrow and and the commentaries that after meat wait six hours no matter if you slept in the middle or it's the middle of the day you didn't sleep these are the two practical a logic reasons for why we wait after meet six hours and after cheese we don't wait six hours but now let's discuss the mystical or spiritual meaning as we know every single food in the world like every existence in the world every physical substance in the world represents a spiritual form of energy in Kabbalah in Jewish mysticism diri products are associated with the attribute of hasent love deli products reflect the attribute of guevara strength the serene whiteness of milk and at being a substance that unlike a salad flows and expands readily our physical features reflecting the emotional energy flow of love of kindness of tender nurturing there's something else about milk that makes it uniquely reflective of the energy of essence it's the only physical substance in the world that the more the mother gives to her child the more she gets usually with physicality the more I shear the less I have if I have a hundred dollars that I give those hundred dollars to you they went over to you and they're not by me anymore I rat I had a check that money Gleaves my account and goes into your account I give you something physical a gift it leaves my domain and enters into your domain that's the rule of the game and spiritualities the other way around if I share wisdom the more I sear the deeper I get it to the deeper I understand it the more I get out of it but that's only in spirituality in physicality and most substances you share it you lose it milk is one of the unique exceptions fire as well namely we see practically the way God created the biological system the more the mother gives milk to the nursing child the more she acquires milk in her own system and that's what the asset is that's what love when you give love you get much more love and you grow much more by shearing by transcending your own ego and giving to somebody else you get that much more so milk because of its color because of the nature of it being a liquid because of the above-mentioned quality the more you give the more you get is associated in Cibola with the energy of Cassatt love the redness and toughness of meat on the other hand are reflections of man's capacity for guevara for strength to create boundaries and walls to discipline to withhold to reject to say no the color of meat the red color of meat which is also associated with fire and gora the toughness of meat the texture of meat these are features reflecting the spiritual energy of Europe Kassadin Gura love and strength are two polar emotions that are necessary for a life for a functional and healthy life Guevara is not cruel it's an important component in a relationship if there's only love and there's no borders if there's only giving and there's no reciprocity if there's only generosity and there are no consequences we're denying the person whom we love the ability to develop their independence if love eliminates the gulf between people the love can be choking and ultimately deny the dignity and the respect the other person needs Borders Guevara underscores the space we give each other it recognized the distinctiveness and the other nests of the beloved one there is a great line of the cuts Kariba in Yiddish it's been a while do bees do hoon do bees do Velez beneath beneath a station do business do a beret pitch my navel is beneath on dooba dooba dooba do beneath one do bees do if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I then I am not I and you are not you but if I am I because I am I and you are you because you are you than I am I and you are you and now we can begin to argue this was my Edition these last few words meaning if there's only acid in my life if I am I only because you are you then I am that I and you are not you there is an i and there's a you and that's what Guevara underscores and then there could be a relationship between the two in the life one has to be able to say yes but the one else has to be able to say no in fact if you never say no you never really say yes yet although both elements are crucial in order to maintain a healthy balance in life the attribute of asset must always overpower and dominate the attribute of guru one needs to make sure that his acts of disciplining are an outgrowth of love and caring rather than the other way around parents for example parents must have asset love and nurture children Express the love and so forth they also need worry they have to discipline rebuked their children create consequences but the parents primary enjoyment or to come from nurturing and creating close relationships with their children not from constructing boundaries and punishing them on the contrary if you penalize your child not as an expression of hazard not because you love them but because you're angry and you're frustrated and you feel alien from them its destructive more than constructive and the same is true in education a good educator and teacher must employ acid and must employ Vora if there is no Gura then often the classroom becomes a jungle do no growth there's no consistency there's no trust there's no discipline and ultimately the children don't respect themselves but what must be the power overpowering attribute hasn't the love the nurture the kindness the grace discipline is a means to create a healthy love to create love that helps build people rather than love that spoils and ultimately diminishes people but love must be more dominant than discipline both are critical both are important both are vital but the tacit must be more powerful than the Guru now we come to another very interesting concept in Jewish law known as Tata govern the lower one dominates and this is actually an argument in Gomorrah in your curriculums under the video you can open up this and the quoted the Talmud and Sock'em mass active session defiant government I love tracted Sarkin page 76 comlete sign in with sign in litter shop the Talmud asks a question like this we know that heat allows the taste absorbed in one food to travel to the food nearby in the same past scientifically heat of course causes the molecules to open up and therefore the substance and taste in one food is absorbed by the dish by the food near it cold foods don't transfer the taste from one to one other as the molecules remain closed so if a hot piece of meat falls in to a hot bowl of milk there is no question that the meat and the milk here get mixed up even if you take the milk out of the out of the pot or you take the meat out of the pot since they're both hats so the taste was transferred so both of them are prohibited if cold food falls into cold food and one is coach that one is not kosher the taste is not transferred in they remain kosher the question is calm the taste sign in would sign in latekka what happens if hot food falls into cold food or cold food falls into hot food Rav our my Rav says a law govern the upper substance dominates small or Matata govern small is of the opinion that the lower substance the lower food dominates so if you have a pot and a piece of kosher foods and a piece of of non kosher foods are both in the pot one is hot and one is cold so Rav says you have to look on the e law the higher food it dominates if the higher food is hot it heats up the lower food before the lower food manages to cool over the higher food and since it eats up everything in the path so the tastes are transferred and there's non kosher food here everything is forbidden small says no Tata govern the lower food dominates the lower food overpowers so if the lower food is hot if the lower substance is hot it heats off the higher piece before the higher one manages to cool over the lower one and therefore the taste is transferred and everything is non kosher but according to Shmuel if the lower piece of food is cold it cools off the higher as well and the food is not transferred so you have to peel off the part of the kosher food which is touching the non kosher food but the whole remainder of the kosher food remains kosher for Jewish consumption because the lower piece was cold and it cools off the paths Rav is of the opinion that the higher piece dominates this is the argument what is the halacha what is Jewish law like small as Rashi brings there now luffy here is like well that Tata cover the lower food dominates and that's the halacha in your next source here today is Simmons on the Caliph's invalid bus service all of right concern SR Vassa hot meat and milk which got mixed in to a pot I filibustered signing latesh Olive rehtaeh it's all of tiny Ledesma sera tears haka loss or even cold meat fell into hot milk or cold milk fell into hats meat hackle assume is from the tatar govern everything is forbidden because the lowest substance prevails and since the lower substance whether it was the milk was hot or whether it was the meat if the meat is on the bottom was caught was hot so therefore everything is prohibited tata governor the lower one dominates according to this says the algebra we can understand the deeper spiritual and emotional reason why after meat you have to wait six hours till you drink milk but after drinking milk you don't have to wait before eating meat the difference is based on understanding the contrast we spoke about acid versus Guevara whatever I eat first becomes the foundation it becomes the Tata the foundation which dominates the food which comes subsequently afterwards says the alter rebbe if I drank milk or I ate ice cream or pizza or something else which is of a dear Deary product so what's the Tatar what's in the foundation of my system hazard because dairy products reflect the energy of love now if afterwards immediately afterwards I wash my hands I rinse my mouth I wait a half an hour I wait an hour and I now eat meat the meat is e law the meat came on top of the milk the Guara is now subservient to the hasit because Tata Garver the lower substance prevails the foundation prevails what's on the bottom humphs and dominates and overpowers so the hesed dominates over the Gura the diri overpowers the deli because the diri came first it's on the bottom katara gov are the lowest substance prevails granted good but if it's the other way around if you first eat a piece of steak or a piece of chicken so now what is absorbed in your system first cavora the energy of rejection of strength of discipline now if you're going to immediately eat a dairy product the facet will become subservient to the Guara in life that's not how it should be the caste said always has to be a little more powerful than the glory there has to be what the kabbalah calls acid this calls tobias haha sodom al adverse the overpowering of love over discipline and strength so if a person absorbs meat first the energy of radec rejection becomes the bottom substance in the body so that if the person would consume dairy immediately afterwards the attribute of rejection would overpower the attribute of love in his life based on the principle that the bottom overpowers the top and what's the bottom meat hora only when six hours have elapsed during which the rejection energy of meat is fully digested in a system and there is no residue of meat left in the throat and the palate between the teeth as the Rambam explained it how logically and there is no taste of the meat lingering as the Torah explained that I wanna CLE spiritually what it means the guevara is now not dominating your system now you can digest you can internalize the diri energy of love and a healthy productive and constructive manner but if a person consumes dairy first so the flow of has said is the bottom substance so then he can immediately proceed to eat meat because in this case the prevailing substance would be hasit and it would dominate the power of worry that becomes second so the next time you eat meat and you have to wait six hours till you could consume dairy remember it's not just a technical a logic process it's also a deep psychological emotional and spiritual cleansing process your hasit cannot afford to become subservient to your guru first cleanse the system wait six hours cleanse the gora and then introduce the milk introduced necessity practically speaking what it means in our own personal application when a person is angry or frustrated or you feel distant from the person you're dealing with that's not the moment to chastise them it's not the moment to rebuke them it's not the moment to criticize them if you don't love this child now don't penalize him or her because the penalty will be usually counterproductive if you're very angry at your spouse do not criticize them it will only make them more defensive you must make sure that chesed is prevailing the tacit is dominant and then the criticism will be he listened to and consumed in a different fashion altogether why did God establish the natural law that the bottom substance overpowers the higher substance why is the halacha the law that Qatar govern the lower substance prevails and dominates why you may say small believes those are the facts the lower substance will have a greater impact on the pot but that itself is always a reflection of a spiritual truth which then evolves within the physical world so the outer epidermis today's almond of Lee Adi explains the reason Tata govern the lower substance prevails is because in the cosmic battle between heaven and earth the bottom prevailed over heaven which is the top when the earth prevail over heaven it was that moment discussed in the beginning of the class when the angels the heavenly creatures populating the spiritual universe on high demanded that the Torah be granted to them to know how Allah shall I am they tell God bestow your grace on heaven but it was earth that triumphant our rock-bottom world a world which is lowly in course a world in which the divine presence is almost completely if not completely eclipsed and concealed this world became the recipient of Torah of the divine blueprint for life it is on our soil and within our frail hearts that the objective of all creation is implemented the bottom indeed overpower the top the angel said keep the Torah in heaven let the higher world prevail letti law govern let the supernal spiritual realities triumph but the resultant practicality was Tata govern the lower one prevails you know they tell the anecdote about a rabbi who used to always preach about how you have to love children and be nice to children and be warm to children and nurtured children and he always spoke about how sensitive he is to children and ones they were paving his alleyway they were paved it with new cement new plaster and of course children see fresh cement they immediately from the whole block came dancing over the pavement the fresh pavement jumping on it making their mark their imprints physically in the new concrete and the rabbi sees what's happening and he comes out to the porch and he begins yelling and hollering at the kids and his wife hears her husband hollering comes out and she says you always talk about how you have to be sensitive to children and love children and be nice to children why are you hollering at them with such anger and he tells his wife he says I love children and the ideal not in the concrete there are two worlds is the ideal world and is the concrete world so the angel said let a log of our available even to heaven but earth triumphed Sinai happened here on this planet the Torah was given to human beings living a soul in a frail body with a frail heart mortal human beings who live in a lowly and coarse world which eclipsed the spirituality and godliness this is what the Torah was given now we will be able to understand the true depth of that conversation that's faithful exchange between God and the Angels that moment when he was about to give Moses the second tablets let's remember why tatar govern why does the lower prevail because it reflects the cosmic truth earth prevailed over heaven if the Torah would have been given in heaven elog over it means the higher worlds prevailed over the lower world now the angels come to God and say don't give the Torah to the Jewish people they violated it they transgressed it don't trust them with your deepest treasure don't trust them with that which is your most intimate love the Torah so God responds and says I don't understand you're accusing the Jews when you went out Rama V knew you violated the Torah you ate meat and milk it's prohibited you're the ones who reject the Torah you're the ones who show disrespect to Tauron mitzvahs now you're blaming the Jews and you want the Torah for yourself so the angels ought to respond as we asked at the beginning of the class what do you mean we first drank milk we first ate cat she's and then we ate the burger we first ate the cheese and then the burger we first drank the milk and then we had the beef then we had their tongue and the mustard which I've Rama V to serve them what's the response to them God says no according to your philosophy according to your perspective that elog of our that the Torah ought to be or to remain in heaven the Torah ought to be given to angels in other words the higher substance prevails then if the higher substance prevails then you're now letting eat meat after milk you're only allowed to drink milk after meat but you now let eat meat after milk the reason we explained why you're allowed to consume meat after you have eaten dairy products is because Tata govern the lower substance prevails so when you drink milk the facet is on the bottom now when you eat meat the higher substance is subservient to the lower substance the gore is subservient to the crescent but if you believe that elog of our that the higher substance prevails because the Torah belongs in heaven and that's the ultimate key which represents this contrast of philosophies whether the ideal prevails or the concrete prevails you say the Torah belongs in heaven so then it would be the other way around if you drink milk first you cannot eat meat afterwards why because the higher prevails if the higher prevails so that facet is subservient to the Gura only if you eat meat first then can you drink milk afterwards because the higher prevails so to put it in other words what God was telling the Angels is this from the fact that when you visited Abraham you ate milk after you drank milk and at you ate meat after you drank milk and eat cottage cheese this demonstrated that deep down you know the truth that the Torah belongs on earth not in heaven deep down you are intimately and keenly aware of the truth that Tata govern that the lower substance prevails and therefore if you drink milk and eat cottage or yogurt or cream first afterwards you can consume meat why can you consume meat because Tatara governs the lower substance prevails and therefore the guevara becomes subservient to the hasit the discipline becomes subservient to the law of rather than the love becoming subservient to the discipline so when the Angels protested God's plan to send the Torah down to earth demanding that it remains within the higher realms of existence God is demonstrating to them that they really did not believe what they were saying because if they truly felt that a Torah balloon above and not below it would mean that their perspective held that the top or to overpower the bottom and that's why the Torah belongs we're on top in heaven but if that were the case they would need to wait 6 hours after eating cheese before they can before they could consume meat so that the rejection power of meat would not override the loving power of cheese all this based on their perspective of course that the higher substance overpowers the lower substance but the fact that the Angels did consume meat immediately following their dearie meal demonstrates that they to believe that the divine blueprint for life was reserved for the human race the Torah was reserved for us human beings living living and struggling and battling a lowly and mundane reality they too conceded to the fact that the bottom overpowers the top and that's why they allowed themselves to consume dairy and immediately after that eat deli thus it was in the merit of the dairy followed by daily meal that the Torah was given to the Jewish people according to this insight of the altar Deborah Vishnu's almond of Lee Adi in this Midrash and parshas Viera we could now possibly appreciate and glean a whole new perspective on why on Chevis the day the Torah was given to the Jewish people the tradition is the customers that we reenact the Abrahamic feasts we eat dearie we take a break we wash our hands we rinse our mouths we wait for the lot of time that everybody waits whatever you wait and then we eat the deli why is this so significant because this demonstrates the truth that earth prevailed over heaven we mimic and we replicate the first feast and himesh the first feast that I've Rama vena gave the angels Deary followed by deli what is the justification for that tata garv are the lower substance prevails if the higher substance would prevail again you couldn't need deli after Theory you can eat dairy after deli not Dale at Delhi after deer only because the lowest substance prevails the foundation prevails the lower over power is the higher thus you can eat dairy followed by deli this expresses that great truth which was manifested on the holiday of shrews that it's an hour labor to sanctify the soil in our life where we touch the ultimate truth of existence it's in our daily efforts to confront the concealment in this world and the concealment in our own psyche and reality which eclipses the light and the presence of God it's an our daily struggle and battle for transcendence to excavate the goodness and the holiness within the world that the ultimate objective of existence is fulfilled which is why the Torah was given here and which is why who is we begin with the cheese blintzes and only afterwards do we go to the deli part of the meal have a good night and a happy holiday [Music]